Ruth Madeley

Ruth Madeley

Birth : 1987-08-04, Bolton, England

History

Ruth Madeley is a disabled British actress from the North West of England. In 2015 she took the lead role in Don't Take My Baby and in 2019 starred as one of the Lyons family in the epic Russell T Davies drama series Years and Years. Other credits include Fresh Meat and Cold Feet. She also presented the Horizon special Spina Bifida and Me

Profile

Ruth Madeley

Movies

The Almond and the Seahorse
Jenny
For Gwen, it's always 1999. The face in the mirror is unfamiliar and her partner isn't recognizable to her despite waking up together every day. Joe's past is coming undone and his partner, Sarah, fears she will be forgotten. A doctor refuses to give up on them, determined not to let them unravel.
Then Barbara Met Alan
Barbara Lisicki
The untold disability civil-rights love story of two cabaret performers, Barbara and Alan, who met at a gig, fell in love, and became the driving force behind an unprecedented campaign of direct action that ultimately led to the passing of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act.
Verisimilitude
Bella
A struggling disabled actress gets a job advising a film star how to be disabled for his latest role.
Don't Take My Baby
Anna Watson
Factual drama which tells the story of a disabled couple's agonising struggle to keep their newborn baby. Based on real-life testimony, this emotional tale will call viewers' prejudices and beliefs about the disabled community and society as a whole into question, as we learn about a situation many disabled couples find themselves in as new parents. Can 21-year-old wheelchair user Anna and partially-sighted Tom provide the care and attention their daughter needs, or will social worker Belinda have to consider alternative care?